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Water Management
Save the lakes campaign - Restore Hyderabad's Hussain Sagar
Posted on 20 Aug, 2009 02:48 PMRead the report for a comprehensive background on the campaign, along with the techniques used, chronology and dateline as well as the important people to contact.
This link was sourced from the website of Centre of Science and Environment
Rashtrita Jal Chetna Yatra: Efforts of Tarun Bharat Sangh and Rajendar Singh in addressing water related concerns across the country
Posted on 20 Aug, 2009 02:20 PMTarun Bharat Sangh and Rajendar Singh started a massive campaign to spread awareness of traditional water harvesting structures in order to restore the water resources of arid Rajasthan. The aim was to popularize the use of such traditional structures across the country.
International Climate Champions: A British Council and TERI initiative
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 09:18 PMBritish Council and TERI have identified 52 youth over the country who are empowered to pilot climate change adaptation and mitigation activities in their communities as part of their International Climate Championships 2009 program.
Campaigns aimed at battling climate change being organized in Karnataka
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 09:09 PMYou too can play an active role in these activities. Use the contacts provided in this newsreport to be an active member of the global climate change crusade.
Fighting climate change: Greenpeace
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 08:55 PMGreenpeace has done a lot of commendable work in the field of climate change. This link takes you through their climate change campaigns involving the masses.
Chennai metropolitan area's water woes: CMWSSB's plans for the future
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 04:01 PMCMWSSB or Metro Water was established in 1978 and serves 180 sq kms of area and 5.5 million population.
Map depicting areas prone to flooding in India
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 03:48 PMThis map shows the regions in the country that are regularly affected by floods.
The major flood prone regions are Punjab, Haryana, most of the Gangetic plains including Uttar Pradesh, North Bihar and West Bengal, the Brahmaputra valley, coastal Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, and South Gujarat.
Incidence of fluorosis: Map showing states affected by fluorosis in india
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 12:44 PMThese two maps indicate the percentage of districts affected by fluoride, in each state of the country and also gives data of the range of fluoride concentration in drinking water in each state.
Map: Fluoride in groundwater in Asia
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 12:30 PMFor Asia, this map indicates the probability of occurrence of excessive concentrations of fluoride in groundwater, on a scale of high-medium-low.
Map: International Groundwater Resources Assessment Centre's global overview of salinity in groundwater
Posted on 19 Aug, 2009 10:20 AMIn India, salinity has three types of genesis - one, by dissolution (areas concentrated in Kutch, North Rajasthan and bordering Punjab, South Rajasthan and bordering areas of Madhya Pradesh and parts of Western Uttar Pradesh; two, by irrigation (areas concentrated in the Deccan Peninsular region of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu) and parts of Orissa and West Bengal; and three, by late